With DL spots overflowing more than ever, let’s take a look at some names that can fill in while stars get healthy! Hitters: Coco Crisp OF – Everyone desires a five category player and as often as Coco slumps, he catches fire. If I had Braun, or Harper, or any number of ailing stars, give … Read more
El Dio de Strikeout & MLB Updates: Jose Fernandez – Fernandez out-dueled Atlanta’s Alex Wood in this one, snatching up the W in the 1-0 game. Hernandez K’d 14, allowing 0 ER. Tuesday’s victory moves Hernandez to 3-1 on the season with a 1.99 ERA and an astounding 47 K’s in 31.2 IP. Alex Wood – … Read more
Oscar Taveras – The number 3 overall MLB Prospect is back to his old ways in Triple-A is batting .300/.364/.525 with 2 HR’s and 8 RBI’s through 11 games. Expect him to hit the Bigs in about a month. Cardinal fans, you can breath again. Stephen Piscotty – Through 10 games, Piscotty is doing all he … Read more
Josh Hamilton – Down goes Hamilton! He will miss 6-8 Weeks with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his thumb, which he injured while sliding into first base. JB Shuck has been called to move into Hamilton’s vacated position. Shuck hit .293 for the Angels last season in 437 ABs and is currently hitting .375 … Read more
Justin Smoak – The former top prospect has lead the Mariners to a 2-0 start batting .462 with 2 HR’s and 7 RBI’s. Pick ‘Em up! Desmond Jennings – Speaking of Smoaking the ball, Desmond Jennings is off to a hot start with multiple hits in 2 of 3 games. Keep him in your lineups … Read more
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Fantasy Baseball Updates – Opening Day: Don Baylor/Vlad Guerrero – This isn’t much to the Fantasy Baseball World, but happened in a West Coast Game that many may not have seen. Don Baylor who is the 64-Year Old Hitting Coach for the Angels caught the ceremonial Opening Day … Read more
Movement in the Ranks (continued) As the previous Movement in the Ranks article has featured players that have helped their rankings with a great spring. We will look at the OF, RP, and SP positions below. With just a day left before the real start to the season (sorry Australia fans), the rotations … Read more
Movement in the ranks! Hey, for you lucky son of a guns out there that get to draft THIS weekend, instead of watching a guy you were high on get hurt before the games even start! (I’m not bitter Jurickson…..I know no one feels worse than you, ugh!) As our Meeting at the Mound … Read more
Usually this wouldn’t attract as much attention as it has, but whenever you have a star football Heisman winning player on the team, it tends to drive more attraction. Jameis wasn’t the cause of the fight, but you can see the police interfering and dragging him out of the brawl. [youtube id=”FZpHGJy5SHw”] #FSU‘s Jameis … Read more
Fantasy Baseball Updates: Bryce Harper – ESPN Magazine recently held an anonymous pole as 143 Current MLB Players participated. Bryce Harper was voted as the “Most Overated Player” in the Bigs with Yasiel Puig and ARod trailing closely behind. On another note, Mike Trout took home the crown, being voted the “Most Valuable Player” in … Read more